Wulf's Web-Den

It has been a busy week so, after yesterday's reflection, I have decided to treat myself to a few days off blogging. If you want to catch me as soon as I return (probably with next Saturday's self-portrait) then you can use the RSS feed for this site via a service like Bloglines to see when I'm back.

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Easter is almost over - just time to say happy Easter. It has been a busy day, with music to be played at a couple of services and also delivering a sermon in the evening one but I think I will sleep well tonight.

Oh, and it snowed this morning!

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Today is Shrove Tuesday, the last day before the season of Lent. Last year, I decided that my Lenten discipline would be getting more sleep. This year I considered a 40-day blogfast (celebrating the feast-days on Sundays with posting) but I think I will be bursting with too many things to write about.

However, I will aim to keep my posts short and sweet; I will be happy to miss a day here and there; I may even take a week or two off.

And I will be having pancakes tonight!

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Did you miss me?

I think last week's blog fast was a very worthwhile idea. While life already seems to be back to firing on all cylinders, the extra space to rest and relax over Christmas was very welcome. I definitely expect to use that idea again.

I am back for now though and have plenty of ideas - another bottle of wine to write up, stacks of photographs to work through (including picking my single favourite from the whole of 2007) and all that reflecting back and looking forward stuff that bloggers tend to do round the New Year period. I also have a brand new blog project called Walking Hither Green, inspired by Rob's Walking the Streets of Forest Hill, that should see me pounding every pavement in my local area and interacting both with local bloggers and neighbours who are determinedly offline.

This morning though, I must stop my blogging and finish preparing - we're off to RHS Wisley this morning to let my mother-in-law try out the RHS membership she got for Christmas and for me to take yet more photographs that I then need to find time to sort, file and share.

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Christmas is traditionally a time of feasting, so why am I declaring a week long "blog fast"?

I think that if I am going to enjoy all the other aspects of the feast then it will help to free a little time up each from sitting in front of the computer. Sometimes we need to make space if we want to enjoy a little peace on earth.

Merry and blessed Christmas one and all. I plan to be back to blogging a week today (or you can just subscribe to the RSS newsfeed and wait for this blog to spring back to life).

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Following Tuesday's musings on comments for this blog I have done some more looking round.

I took a closer look at the IntenseDebate site but haven't quite got my head around how their community fits together. If I find it confusing, I wonder if it will really work to encourage people to participate on my blog?

I also took a look at some other possibilities. I know at least one person who uses Haloscan (I will have to ask her about it at the forthcoming Lewisham Bloggers Meet Up next Friday) and JS-Kit also looked quite appealing although I am not sure whether it would be easy to keep on top of moderating comments from multiple computers.

Or, of course, maybe I should just roll my own...

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Last Wednesday I mentioned that I was considering making changes to the comment system on this blog. Having done a bit more research, I decided that I liked the look of IntenseDebate.

However, attempts to include it have not been entirely successful. By inserting their javascript snippet I can get a comment box appearing on the most recent post (although apparently no mechanism for commenting on other entries) but trying to view an individual entry (the "permanent link" at the end of each post) puts the browser into a never ending loop of page reloading.

A bit more work is needed, probably via discussion on the intensedebate website; meanwhile, the Flickr mashup stands.

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